ENUGU — The Enugu State House of Assembly has passed a bill for law to establish the Enugu State Roads Fund for the purpose of financing the development, rehabilitation, and maintenance of state and rural roads and for other connected matters (HB. 1, 2022). The bill when assented to by the Governor of the state, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, will be cited as the Enugu State Roads Fund Law. The Enugu State Roads Fund law shall be...

By Handel Patrick (Staff Reporter) AWKA — The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Anambra State Council, has decried the bad condition of roads in the state and urged the state governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, to do quick and repair them. The pen pushers stated this in a communique endorsed by its state chairman, Dr. Odogwu Emeka Odogwu, and made available to journalists in Awka, the Anambra State capital on Thursday. Stating that roads in the...

The Federal Government has approved N3 billion to fund the construction of the Jalingo-Numan Road. The road, which was awarded in March 2017 at the cost of N11 billion, to be completed in July 2019 become a death trap as well is covered by terrorists and armed bandits. The Minister for State, Works and Housing, Engr. Muazu Sambo Jaji made this known over the weekend, during an inspection of Federal roads under construction within Taraba...

The Federal Government, on Thursday, said the Second Niger Bridge (now named Muhammadu Buhari Bridge) and the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway would be completed before the end of 2022. This came as the government said there were no existing contracts to impose tolls on federal roads constructed under the Sukuk fund. The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, disclosed this to State House correspondents during a special ministerial briefing organized by the Presidential Communications Team,...